The New Generation of OR Enthusiasts: the AIROYoung Experiment
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The New Generation of OR Enthusiasts: the AIROYoung Experiment Lavinia Amorosi1 · Martina Fischetti2 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract This special issue is dedicated to young researchers in operations research (OR) and to the newest topics of research in this field. To better understand the new generations of OR enthusiasts, what they are working on, and how they are going to feel part of this research community, the issue is dedicated to the 4th AIROYoung Workshop (Bolzano, 5–7 February 2020) and to the Italian AIROYoung chapter experience. AIROYoung is an example of a successful initiative that was born “from young researchers for young researchers”: volunteering PhDs and young OR specialists put their time and energies to create a young community, offer resources, and foster the collaboration between universities and industries. The issue will contain both scientific papers on the newest research topics, and extra contents and interviews to picture the community behind AIROYoung, and why it is important for young OR researchers around the world to feel part of a community.
1 AIROYoung: Our Story and Our Core Values AIROYoung Researchers Chapter is part of the Italian Operational Research Society (AIRO) and, despite its recent birth, it has managed to create a very large and increasingly active community. Back in 2016, a group of PhDs and PostDocs was sitting at a table, during the social dinner of the AIRO (Italian Association of Operations Research) annual conference. The group consisted mainly of Italian PhDs, part of them doing their PhD abroad. The conversation handed up in a discussion about different PhD systems in different institutions and parts of the world. What emerged was that some students had more opportunities than others (due to the difference in Lavinia Amorosi
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Department of Statistical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Vattenfall BA Wind, Kobenhavn, Denmark
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funds from different research groups), in particular when it comes to conferences. We strongly believe that conferences are important for PhD students and early careers, as they give them a possibility to present their work, improve their presentation skills, get in contact with other PhDs, and maybe start collaborations. It is also very important for PhDs to feel part of a community, because they can face both practical and stress problems during their PhD, and it is good to have people around in the same situation, with whom to share issues and look for feedbacks. A gap between universities and industries also emerged during the conversation. The group took these thoughts home and noticed that, indeed, a young chapter is often missing in OR Associations, and in the specific, one was missing in the Italian one. Four of the people sitting at that table (Lavinia Amorosi, Veronica Dal Sasso, Martina Fischetti, and Alberto Santini) decided then to act on this a
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